M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.

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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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Thanks for the timesThat you've given me.The memories are all in my mind.And now that we've comeTo the end of our rainbow,There's somethingI must say out loud.You're once, twiceThree times a lady.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.
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Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.
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I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.
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I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.